bricabrac
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See also: bric-a-brac and bric-à-brac
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]bricabrac (usually uncountable, plural bricabracs)
- Alternative form of bric-a-brac
- 1840, M. A. Titmarsh [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], “Meditations at Versailles”, in The Paris Sketch Book, volume II, London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC, page 267:
- The palace of Versailles has been turned into a bricabrac shop, of late years; and its time-honoured walls have been covered with many thousand yards of the worst pictures that eye ever looked on.
- 1861 January – 1862 August, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “In which Philip Shows His Mettle”, in The Adventures of Philip on His Way through the World; […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1862, →OCLC, page 299:
- No doubt her pleasure would have been at that moment to give him not only that gold which she had been saving up against rent-dayu, but the spoons, the furniture, and all the valuables of the house, including, perhaps, J. J.'s bricabrac, cabinets, china, and so forth.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French bric-à-brac.
Noun
[edit]bricabrac n (plural bricabracuri)
Declension
[edit]Declension of bricabrac
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) bricabrac | bricabracul | (niște) bricabracuri | bricabracurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) bricabrac | bricabracului | (unor) bricabracuri | bricabracurilor |
vocative | bricabracule | bricabracurilor |